Chefs In Scotland

Out and About Friday 4th August.

Posted by Site administrator on August 4 2017 at 12:40

Relief is very tight just now as you would expect for the time of year.

Establishments seem to be keeping hold of the relief chefs they in in place.

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At the moment there are over 70 chefs out working in the South of England, the North of England and all over Scotland.

If you are coming towards the end of your relief job get in touch with your finish date and I can mark you available for your next job.

You can call 01683 222830, email jojo@chefsinscotland.co.uk or PM me.

Out and about just now –

Glyn Musker and Jenny Quashie are in the Cotswolds at Number Four Restaurant for 1 month they both worked together at The Bridge Hotel in Buttermere.

Mark Bellingham is at The Bridge Hotel in Buttermere.

Sara-Jayne Moffat is back from Florida and straight back to work at the Cross Keys Hotel in Kelso.

Gary McGirr was over in Fort William at The Geographer Restaurant.

New relief chef Paul Thomson is enjoying being out on relief at The Dunavon Hotel in Aberdeen.

Yousef Shengheer has been extended til the end of September at Victoria’s Restaurant in Pitlochry.

Ricky Leyland is in Lockerbie at The Dryfesdale Hotel.

Johan Sikkema is at The Mustard Seed Restaurant and Alan Kaye is at the sister Restaurant The Kitchen Brasserie.

Sean Greene is also new to relief and has just passed his driving test currently working in Moffat at the The Moffat House Hotel.

Mark Shaw and Kevin MacAngus are both at The Kenmore Hotel in Perthshire.

Gordon Wright is at The Smoking Fox in Glasgow.

Douglas “Denzil” Gillies has come back from a week in Tenerife and is travelling up to Forres today to work at The Knockomie Hotel.

Pawel Halicki is back helping at the Cairngorm Hotel in Aviemore.

Graeme Fyffe is coming to the end of his contract at The Milton Inn in Monifeith and has taken a permanent head chef position in Angus.

Thanks to you all keep up the good work

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Posted by Site administrator on August 2 2017 at 11:30

Annabel here:

I am a student at the University of Edinburgh studying Business and Accounting. I was fortunate to spend my third year studying on exchange at the University of Melbourne. I arrived home at the end of June and was very grateful to have been offered a summer position at the Chefs In Scotland Office before I start my fourth year in September. I grew up in Moffat, where CIS is based, and so working here allows me to live at home, see my family as well as earn some money - a necessity for any student!

Whilst on my summer placement I have worked on chef recruitment, answering phones, emails, and sending out invoices as well as working on projects set out by Michael. These projects include the brewery, the Moffat Golf Club and helping sort out the Financial Year End. Learning in a real business environment is very different from learning at University, no text books involved and no assignments!

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Galldachd na h-Alba Brewery

Posted by Michael Tough on August 1 2017 at 14:15

Galldachd na h-Alba Brewery

Driving into Lockerbie in the van this morning felt a little different. Bentley the Basset and El Poco the Street dog from Nerja on the Costa Del Sol were in their usual positions in the back on the mattress that we shared last winter in Spain. They didn’t bark too much as I exited the M74 and drove past the rubble of what used to be the school I left in 1982.

The squash courts and the ice rink remain much the same; without the space invaders but full of many instant memories of a miss-spent youth.

We drove down through the busy high street, today packed with cylists heading up to Moffat on the back road. Down past the railway station where I first alighted in Lockerbie in 1975 with my mother and my big brother Alex, some three months before my 10^th birthday.

Well Street is narrow and there is a dead end where I park up the van and walk through the vennel to the solicitors, Henderson and MacKay, next to the Kings Arms Hotel where I played pool and drank a pint of lager with my dad on my 18^th birthday.

I am jovial and joke with the lady in reception that Tom my solicitor has booked his six shares in the brewery which is yet an empty shell.

With two keys for the door and my camera, Bentley and El Poco bark at this folly.

Tomorrow can be a day for planning; today is just a day for dreaming.

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Out and about Friday 28th July

Posted by Site administrator on July 28 2017 at 15:03

We have 73 chefs out working which is 5 more than last year.

Relief has been very busy with 31 chefs booked last week and so far, another 25 this week.

Adverts have been piling in also as have permanent jobs solely for Chefs In Scotland to look for.

If you are interested in any positions please email over your CV to recruitment@chefsinscotland.co.uk

Out just now is:

Sean Abernethy at the Links Hotel in Montrose

David Bedo at Dores Inn near Inverness

Dale Paton was at Springkell and is now back at Auchen Castle both Dumfriesshire

David Dickson is at The Royal Hotel in Keith

Peter Mallia is in Dumfries at the Easterbrook Hall

John Taylor is still at the Wheatsheaf Hotel and getting on very well.

Stuart Agnew is just finishing at the Victoria Hotel in Bute

Marthius Mwina and Leslie Kehoe have both taken seasonal positions at The Glen Nevis Restaurant

Barry Owen has joined the relief circuit and is on his 1^st job at Woll Golf Club in Selkirk and going to his second in Perthshire next week.

Piotr Miga is back at Go Glasgow Urban Hotel

Don Craig is at Tigh and Eilean Hotel in Shieldaig

Lillian Clarkson is at Laroch Restaurant in Ballachullish

Patrick Johnstone was at Carfraemill Hotel in the Borders

Stephen Kessell is at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness

Sarah Pozzi is near Mallaig at the Arisaig Hotel

If you are due to finish a relief job please get in touch with your finish dates and your next available date.

Thanks girls and guys for all your hard work 😊

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Out and about Friday 21st July

Posted by Site administrator on July 21 2017 at 10:49

Out and About Friday 21^st July

We now have 79 relief chefs out working in Scotland which is up on last years by 10 chefs.

There have been a few new chefs starting with us on relief, if you are interested in doing any relief work please get in touch with a copy of your updated CV and reference details and we will call you to get you registered.

If you are a chef who is known to us and have any availability or if you are relief chef out working and are due to finish then please PM me or call with your finish dates.

We are still meeting chefs at our office in Moffat if you want to make an appointment to discuss any work – just get in touch and we will check our availability.

Carrying on with the other chefs I placed in June

Mark Shaw at Ramnee Hotel

Sean McCurrach at Dryburgh Abbey Hotel

George McCallum at Loch Melfort Hotel

Patrick Johnstone at Carfraemill Hotel

Kathryn Hill at Seaview Hotel

Craig Eggers at Fiddlers Music Bar and Bistro

Craig Brown at The Winnock Hotel

Mick Kitson at The Lodge on the Loch Aboyne

Seabastian Luszczynski at East Haugh House Hotel

Glyn Musker at Western Isles Hotel

Jason Paxton at Loch Insh Watersports Centre

Graham Smith at Scalloway Hotel

Gary Rodgers at Kingsmills Hotel

Alfie Cranwell at Royal Hotel

Stephen Kessell at Eden Court Theatre

Vladimir Sviridenko at Park Hotel

Ben Mailer at Scalloway Hotel

Kirsty Hamilton at Glengarry Castle Hotel

Ben Wright at Tongue Hotel

Ryan Williamson at Crusoe Hotel

Dixon Chireri at Old Manor Hotel

Ally Elder at Duisdale Hotel

Johan Sikkema at Carrbridge Kitchen

Alan Kaye at Glensander

Scott Bolton at Mustard Seed Restaurant

Peter Mallia at Buccleuch & Queensberry Hotel

Tim Morris at Three Lemons

Martin Furlong at The Links Hotel

David Ironside at The Links Hotel

Yousef Shengheer at Victoria’s Restaurant

Craig Brown at Ramnee Hotel

Stuart MacColl at Cross Keys Kelso

Blair Mackay at Mackays Hotel

Ricky Leyland at Stotfield Hotel

Mark Bellingham at Letterfinlay Lodge

John McCormick at Loch Melfort Hotel

Derrick Bartley at Queens Hotel

Daniel Haig at Kings House

Douglas Gillies at Gartmore House

Shaun Murray at Old Mill Inn

Stuart Palmer at Springkell House

Leslie Kehoe at Cressfield Hotel

Alan Anderson at Cawdor Bistro

Gary McGirr at Glengarry Castle Hotel

Jamie Atkinson at Tigh an Eilean Hotel

Stuart Agnew at Victoria Hotel

Kirsty Hamilton at Pierhouse Hotel

Robin McCrindle at The Wheatsheaf Hotel

Craig Eggers at The Rowantree Hotel

David Bedo at Dores Inn

Mick Kitson at Rothesay Rooms

Chris Roberti at Fishers Hotel

Steven Sinclair at Parkdean Holidays

Graham McLeish at Tigh and Eilean Hotel

Thanks to each and every one of you for all of your hard work.

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